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Mercury: Little Joe launcher
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Technicians adjust the rocket motor during the attachment of the escape tower to the Mercury capsule prior to assembly with Little Joe launcher, August 20, 1959. Joseph Shortal wrote (vol. 3., p. 33): The escape tower and rocket motors were taken from the Mercury capsule production. The tower is shown being attached to the capsule.... The escape rocket was a Grand Central 1-KS-52000 motor with three canted nozzles. The tower-jettison motor was an Atlantic Research Corp. 1.4-KS-785 motor.
NASA Image and Video Library’s own descriptionCredit lineMercury: Little Joe launcher. NASA/LARC, 1959-08-18. Public domain. ID: LRC-1959-B701_P-05798.
